To celebrate the upcoming series Doctor Who staring Jodie Whittaker, I'm attempting to chronicle all the mobile phones used in previous shows. If you think you've spotted something that's not listed here, or think I've made a mistake, drop it in the comments. You can follow along with all 10 series. Darkest Timeline Oh my friends and oh my foes, I have some tragic news! Series 6 of Doctor Who contains the least number of phones seen so far. Amy, bless her, is still rocking the same old…
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To celebrate the upcoming series Doctor Who staring Jodie Whittaker, I'm attempting to chronicle all the mobile phones used in previous shows. If you think you've spotted something that's not listed here, or think I've made a mistake, drop it in the comments. You can follow along with all 10 series. Rory / The Doctor - The Eleventh Hour Back when Matt Smith first joined the TARDIS, I wrote a whole blog post about his phone. It starts off belonging to Rory. And then The Doctor nabs it to…
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To celebrate the upcoming series Doctor Who staring Jodie Whittaker, I'm attempting to chronicle all the mobile phones used in previous shows. If you think you've spotted something that's not listed here, or think I've made a mistake, drop it in the comments. You can follow along with all 10 series. The Doctor - Planet of the Dead After being stuck on an interstellar bus, W'Kabi Barclay gives his phone to The Doctor to be upgraded. That patterned back! Obviously the Nokia Prism 7500. …
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To celebrate the upcoming series Doctor Who staring Jodie Whittaker, I'm attempting to chronicle all the mobile phones used in previous shows. If you think you've spotted something that's not listed here, or think I've made a mistake, drop it in the comments. You can follow along with all 10 series. Donna - Partners in Crime A cracking episode - perfectly directed. But what's the device Donna's teasing us with? A little too indistinct for now. Let's wait for a clearer view later. Martha - …
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To celebrate the upcoming series Doctor Who staring Jodie Whittaker, I'm attempting to chronicle all the mobile phones used in previous shows. If you think you've spotted something that's not listed here, or think I've made a mistake, drop it in the comments. Phones play a massive part in this series - more so than any before. You can <follow along with all the series at https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/doctor-who-phones/. The Runaway Bride Donna's dress has no pockets - so she doesn't get a…
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To celebrate the upcoming series Doctor Who staring Jodie Whittaker, I'm attempting to chronicle all the mobile phones used in previous shows. If you think you've spotted something that's not listed here, or think I've made a mistake, drop it in the comments. You can follow along with all 10 series. The Christmas Invasion Only one phone of note here. The Sycorax speech is translated by Alex's device. That's a handy view of an HP iPAQ H2210 Mickey - School Reunion Rose's…
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I've previously reviewed other Meross smart home devices, so now on to their MSL120 - an E27 screw cap bulb. The bulb has dimming and colour changing functions. Let's crack on with a video! The app The Android app looks good - although a little rough around the edges, but it's easy to set up a bulb and control it. Controlling the colours and brightness is a little odd. You have to slide your finger over the whole screen. Vertical for brightness and horizontal for colour. There's…
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To celebrate the upcoming series Doctor Who staring Jodie Whittaker, I'm attempting to chronicle all the mobile phones used in previous shows. If you think you've spotted something that's not listed here, or think I've made a mistake, drop it in the comments. You can follow along with all 10 series. Rose From the start of "New Who" mobile phones are integral to the plot. Rose Tyler has the ultra zeitgeisty Nokia 3200. With its distinctive double-button design and gorgeous holographic…
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It's fun to grumble about a product. Sending snarky tweets, writing ranty blog-posts for those sweet HackerNews page-views, and generally complaining about how crap something is. Admit it, you do it too! I do it too often. The thing is, that's the easy way out. Much harder is engaging in constructive dialogue, submitting decently detailed issues, and crafting useful pull requests. So, I'm going to try something new. The AMP Project have asked me to join their Advisory Committee. To be…
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I asked a question in a meeting a few days ago. "What if we just banned Civil Servants from printing anything?" To be clear, this wasn't an entirely serious proposal. But it's how I like to frame a discussion about available option when making a decision: Can we just stop doing this thing? What if we don't change anything? Option 1... Option 2... ... We can't ban printers. Some people like printing (who knew‽) and some people even need to print. But it helps us to understand u…
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I've been driving EVs for a few years now - and people often ask me about running costs. I can't tell you what your insurance, maintenance, or leasing costs will be - but I can show you how much it costs to drive. Here's a fairly recent trip in my Renault Zoe: That's a mixture of motorways in the cold, and gentle country paths in the summer. Hopefully typical of a mixed driving style. It takes 971kWh of electricity to move 3,500 miles. So, what's that in MPG? Let's work it out the long…
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I want to convert YouTube's auto-generated subtitles into a plain transcript. Why is this so hard? This blog post gives a more detailed explanation than my answer to this StackOverflow question. Here's what the subtitles look like when you view a video: And here's what the code which generates those subtitles looks like: 00:00:00.930 --> 00:00:03.080 align:start position:0% and<00:00:01.230><c> now</c><00:00:01.439><c> can</c><00:00:01.709><c> we</c><00:00:01.800><c>…
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